Well, as the author of that

Well, as the author of that article says near the beginning:

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There are no possibilities how to remove border, change color of border, or change the width of border by help of CSS.

but he/she has found a workaround to produce an effect that looks like the border's been removed. The problem with that method is that if the text size is larger than what the designer originally envisioned, then parts of the select will be unreadable, due to the use of overflow:hidden.